I think the coaching staff, for sure, but are the assistants guilty? Was the AD and his direct staff complicit? What about the university president and the dean of students?

Let me start here before getting to Penn State...

Well obviously anyone who wants to get out of that abusive program now should be able to. I’m just pondering the impact of forcibly throwing everyone out along with the bad coaches.

Transferring would have some issues to sort out...

now that’s messed up!

Well you obviously have to punish the coaching staff here. They failed on a level that’s just completely inexcusable. None of them should ever coach again anywhere.  And you could go so far as to say the entire athletic department made a terrible hiring choice and should also be responsible and the NCAA should appoint…

If they sign on to a certain program and after one year the coach is gone to a bigger school or the NFL, they still get almost the same thing they started with. So removing the one piece would at least still let them play football at Maryland.

I understand your passion for wanting to eliminate the whole program. I’m just not sure how I feel about doing that to the players.

This is where the expanded playoff spots undermine the waiver deadline.

Could you give a bit more detail about “simultaneous action planning”?

I recommend checking out Space Cadet: Dice Duel if you don’t like the engineer. It’s a similar “bicker with your teammates and try to coordinate jobs” but with dice as the gating mechanism instead of an engineer. Maybe a bit more gamer-y and bit less party-chaos.

I hate that graphic so much I want Kevin Costner to update his rant in Bull Durham to denounce it!

A popular vote is what gave us Trump.

That is, the Constitution doesn’t say the people don’t have the right to vote, and therefore they have the right to vote.

He has a friend who said this. He completely (but wrongly) believes his friend is named “Jim”.

As my last trip to jury duty reminded me (wherein I came very close to serving on a 6-8 week long medical malpractice trial)...

One thing Amazon has going for it, it’s generally difficult to be wrongly accused of shoplifting there.

What gets me is the batter - whose run totally doesn’t matter - still heads for second!

I think the analysis might be more about how the pitcher changes to the stretch from the windup with men on base. (And less so how much a particular runner might be a factor to how they work.)

I’m sure someone higher up made the decision to assign police protection. He might have made a personal decision to take on that job - a lot of security jobs like that are voluntary overtime opportunities - or might have been a normal assignment. So yes, maybe not his choice. To be fair, you choose to serve the public…